Explanation from Scott:
"A blog is an online journal. I have been using one to teach my class. You can check out my class blog at www.doctorscott.edublogs.org
I have also been having my students keep their own blogs to document their research for their gendercide research projects. All of the students blogs have are linked in the blogroll section of my blog.
The class has begun reading several blogs as part of their research. Several students and I went to Nicholas Kristof speak the other day. He is a NY Times journalist who recently wrote Half the Sky with his wife Sharon Wudunn. You can check out his blog at the NY Times."
Write Out Loud http://writeoutloud.edublogs.org/tag/creative-writing/
Created bu a middle school teacher -- "web blog pages of seventh grade English. Here you will find dialog on independent reading books, classroom literature (The Miracle Worker, The Outsiders, A Midsummer’s Night Dream) poetry, creative writing, and general reflections of the world around us." Lots of creative writing prompts, with students' work in comments section.
Student Blog http://alexiscargle.wordpress.com/
This student's blog is part of the Media 21 Project, where students are reading, in literature circles, fiction and non-fiction books about Africa and doing research related to different topics related to Africa. The culminating project will be a multigenre project. In their blogs, students reflect on their research process as well as write response journal entries on the book they are reading.
What is a blog?
Explanation from Scott:
"A blog is an online journal. I have been using one to teach my class. You can check out my class blog at www.doctorscott.edublogs.org
I have also been having my students keep their own blogs to document their research for their gendercide research projects. All of the students blogs have are linked in the blogroll section of my blog.
The class has begun reading several blogs as part of their research. Several students and I went to Nicholas Kristof speak the other day. He is a NY Times journalist who recently wrote Half the Sky with his wife Sharon Wudunn. You can check out his blog at the NY Times."
Blogs in Plain English (from CommonCraft)
http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs
Blogging Advice
How to Grow a Blog
http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2007/10/27/how-to-grow-a-blog/
Thoughtful, detailed thinking about blogging with students -- a must read; also check out the author's Towards Reflective Blog Talk
http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2008/02/04/towards-reflective-blogtalk/
Blogging in the Classroom
http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Blogging#HowDoWeDoIt
Note: This also discusses podcasts
Students as Contributors on Edublogs: the Quick and Easy Way http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2008/02/05/students-as-contributors-on-edublogs-the-quick-and-easy-way/
Two Critical Tips for Classroom Blog Projectshttp://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/2008/04/tips-for-classr.html
Ideas for student bloggings from... How do you do what you do
http://theedublogger.com/2009/04/30/ideas-for-student-bloggings-fromhow-do-you-do-what-you-doIncludes suggestions on student blogging responsibilities and building student blogging skills
Sample blogs
Write Out Loud
http://writeoutloud.edublogs.org/tag/creative-writing/
Created bu a middle school teacher -- "web blog pages of seventh grade English. Here you will find dialog on independent reading books, classroom literature (The Miracle Worker, The Outsiders, A Midsummer’s Night Dream) poetry, creative writing, and general reflections of the world around us." Lots of creative writing prompts, with students' work in comments section.
Student Blog
http://alexiscargle.wordpress.com/
This student's blog is part of the Media 21 Project, where students are reading, in literature circles, fiction and non-fiction books about Africa and doing research related to different topics related to Africa. The culminating project will be a multigenre project. In their blogs, students reflect on their research process as well as write response journal entries on the book they are reading.
Education Blogs by Discipline
http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/Education+Blogs+by+Discipline
A list compiled by Scott McLeod.
Starting a Blog -- Free BlogSpace
Edublogs
http://edublogs.org/
Has great possibilities for class blogging.
WordPress
http://wordpress.com/
Weebly
http://www.weebly.com/